Prekursorzy performatywności. Język jako działanie u Étienne’a Bonnot de Condillaca i Jeana-Jacques’a Rousseau
Precursors of Performativity. Language as Action in the Works by Étienne Bonnot de Condillac and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Author(s): Michał Gniadek
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, History of Philosophy, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Language as Action; Expressive Function of Language; Philosophy of Language; Condillac; Rousseau
Summary/Abstract: The present paper analyses the concept of the performativity of human language in the philosophical writings by Étienne Bonnot de Condillac and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The first part of the text is devoted to the idea of langage d’action and its significance for Condillac‘s epistemology and theory of language; whereas the social and political functions of human speech, presented in the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau, are interpreted in the second part of the paper. Ultimately, it seems that for both Condillac and Rousseau human language is not just a mere thinking tool, but also a way of changing and improving our reality.

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